Multi-Stream LLMs: Unblocking Language Models with Parallel Streams of Thoughts, Inputs and Outputs
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This paper proposes Multi-Stream LLMs, which transition from sequential message-based instruction tuning to parallel stream processing. This approach allows language models to simultaneously read, think, and generate across multiple concurrent data flows, addressing bottlenecks in autonomous agent applications.
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Abstract
Language models can be enhanced by transitioning from sequential message-based instruction-tuning to parallel stream processing, enabling simultaneous reading and generation across multiple concurrent data flows.
The continued improvements in language model capability have unlocked their widespread use as drivers of autonomous agents, for example in coding or computer use applications. However, the core of these systems has not changed much since early instruction-tuned models like ChatGPT. Even advanced AI agents function on message exchange formats, successively exchanging messages with users, systems, with itself (i.e. chain-of-thought) and tools in a single stream of computation. This bottleneck to a single stream in chat models leads to a number of limitations: the agent cannot act (generate output) while reading, and in reverse, cannot react to new information while writing. Similarly, the agent cannot act while thinking and cannot think while reading or acting on information. In this work, we show that models can be unblocked by switching frominstruction-tuningforsequential message formatstoinstruction-tuningfor multiple,parallel streams of computation, splitting each role into a separate stream. Everyforward passof the language model then simultaneously reads from multiple input streams and generates tokens in multiple output streams, all of which causally depend on earlier timesteps. We argue that this data-driven change remedies a number of usability limitations as outlined above, improvesmodel efficiencythrough parallelization, improves model security through betterseparation of concernsand can further improve modelmonitorability.
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